First of all, this piece is lovely. The attention to detail is exquisite! Your use of color is brilliant, and I love your blending. The pink clouds and the white wings provide some contrast, but this could be pushed further if you use more values. You've got great line variation, though this could be pushed further to give the character even more pop. Furthermore, had you chosen colors that were a bit brighter, the character would have popped further. Or, perhaps, making the background a bit less detailed would help, as it is a bit distracting.

Your character design is fantastic, and very detailed. His pose is very dynamic and powerful, and he fills the space nicely. There are a few issues with anatomy, however. His arms are quite bulky for his otherwise slender build, and his legs seem a tad long; however, the rest is spot on and very beautifully rendered. The lines in the background are wonderful and help to make this piece dynamic. Without them, it wouldn't be as entertaining to look at.

Not too many, thankfully. Though I always had a faible for the designs of the FF-Series, so I take it as a compliment, when someone mentiones that. Though Safer Sephiroth has a different set of wings, a black wing instead of an arm and no legs. d:

Absolutely stunning!That background must have been quite a lot of work.. I mean the scenery is simple enough not to steal the characters show, but it must have been so hard not to make it overlap with the character itself OoAnd dear god those wings! All the feathers would have been my worst nightmare but you did such a wonderful job on them! I really like how most of them blend into the wings and that you made the longest ones stand out in that brownish color. It compliments the bluish tint of the smaller feathers really nicely. I also love the rays that come from the characters head. They make him seem even more god- or angel-like.By the way what did you use for highlighting the clouds and the rays?

Thank you very much! Actually, the clouds were not that hard. it's a simple and fast technique and when you cover the figure up with covering liquid, you don't have to worry about him in the way either. ^^

The clouds are highlighted with normal guache paint and - the thinner lines - some airbrush white applied with a quill. The rays on the other side are not made lighter but everything else around them darker. This way around it was easier to make them shine. ^^

It was not the best idea here. As I had to find out: Gold and other metallic colors will stick more to the liquid than the paper. ^^' So, thanks to that I had no problems with the clouds but had to redo the gold.

And no prob. Always again. ^^ And thank you again for the compliments~.

Whoa... Very Sephirothy. And the word "perfection" also comes to mind when seeing the character from waist up to furthest straw of hair. A godly sight to behold indeed, and yet with a little freedom of the mind I can so easily imagine how it might descend, how at the first touch of its toe upon the earth its wings would burst into a veil of light, and for ever more would it sear into the earth the shape of its wings for all to see. And from this light in grace would step forth a creature no living could deny, for in its eyes would glow the vastness of the beyond and through its veins would flow the blood of our souls as for ever more would our world be changed...(Hmmm... I think I better get back to writing my story now while the inspiration is still fresh. )

Well, for the last one and a half year I have been working on a short story (a part of a compilation of individual but overlapping and interconnected stories from ancient past to the near future) in which with Dra have continuously been a great inspiration as it is something of a new 11th century Celtic fairytale. (Hence the language.) That is the one you apparently wish to read, and although unfinished, perhaps this Preview/Excerpt may be of interest? (A few of its flaws have already been taken care of.) [link]

Happy to hear I managed to evoke such expectation from a single comment. Yet fleeting as time might be I hope you have more time than you imply for fear you might die of exhaustion. Then again, if more time you have, you might find yourself disappointed to find yours is a mere one page preview.

Well, you know what they say; always leave them in want for more. But I do of course have an earlier preview, but it has seen a few changes in edit since it was posted, although it still tells more of what the story is about. [link]

Such a compliment is sure to have me strive even more for its completion. But trust me, anyone can write anything they want and however they want it. Surprising as it might be, English isn't my main language either as I'm actually Norwegian, so it's more a question of how stubborn you are. After all, it's not like I've been reading every single old Irish and Celtic fairytale I could find and even 11th century texts for one and a half to two years for nothing.

Anytime. Well, the iconic bad guy is after all deemed one of the greatest and most loved in gaming history. As for what the word truly stands for, I'm still trying to wrap my head around it but sadly without much luck to speak of.